Category: csa

It’s definitely a late start to the summer this year but a few of the early summer crops have still shown up nicely this week. We harvest a few of the early red beets that never really took off this spring, and more yellow beets that have sized up nicely. Favas and green beans both… Continue reading First Summer Share

Thursday is the start of our summer season this year! The early summer shares are looking like they’ll be just as tricky to predict as the spring shares were. It looks like favas and green beans are both going to be ready, but I’m not sure we’ll have enough of both for everyone in the… Continue reading Predictions for 1st Summer Share

The final spring season share this year and it’s a big one. Two heads of lettuce, turnips, kohlrabi, snap peas, green onions, chard, and carrots. With the sun the lettuce has really sped up so we had both butter head and crisp head in the share, and I’m hoping those will hold on for Tuesday,… Continue reading Spring Share 7 of 7

This coming Thursday and Tuesday’s shares are the final spring shares before we start our summer season (Monday is moving to Tuesday next week due to the holiday). The way we’ve gone from extreme cold to extreme heat this past week is keeping things interesting in the field. It’s definitely been good for some of… Continue reading Predictions for 7th Spring Share

Lettuce, collards, peas, turnips, beets and fennel. I’m posting this remotely so I didn’t actually see this one in person, but Tiiu sent me this photo and it looks beautiful. News from the field is that the crew made progress on the weeds in addition to harvest and irrigation duties today. Summer shares start in… Continue reading Spring Share 6 of 7

Lettuce, collards or kale, fennel, turnips, baby beets, snow and snap peas. Depending on what this predicted heat does the lettuce will either be green crisp or red butter on Thursday, and red butter or romaine on Monday. We’re going to try to get everyone collards but the current planting was hit hard by the… Continue reading Predictions for 6th Spring Share

Hoverfly Flower Farm grew some beautiful sweet peas in our you pick area. Come pick a bouquet, or at least walk by to enjoy the fragrance and maybe as a special way to mark this observance of Juneteenth! The pick your own crops are always free to the community on our little farm.

Chard, hakurei, green onions, parsley, snow peas, radishes, arugula, lettuce. It’s a bit smaller than I’d expect for this time of year, but I’m happy we have this much considering how cold it’s been. The snap peas are so close to being ready and we might have enough for Monday’s harvest, which would mean two… Continue reading Spring Share 5 of 7

Arugula, lettuce, turnips, chard, parsley, peas, green onions. The weather this spring is not just slowing everything down, it’s making it super hard to predict how things will ripen – or won’t. The next round of arugula looks like it’ll be beautiful. We have some of my favorite romaine lettuce coming, but I’m not when… Continue reading Predictions for 5th Spring Share

Hakurei turnips, fava greens, young fennel, kale, snow peas, radishes and red leaf lettuce. The turnips are thinning from the second planting and the greens are looking really nice on those. The fava greens looked in top shape this morning and they won’t be around much longer so I went with those instead of the… Continue reading Spring Share 4 of 7

Kale or chard (or both?), Hakurei turnips, radishes, snow peas, fennel, lettuce. We may have more spinach on the farm stand as well. This is a year where it’s been impossible to follow any plan, but at least our plan has been flexible enough that we’re still able to find a few small items to… Continue reading Predictions for 4th Spring Share

The shares continue to be a little smaller than we hoped for, but considering the weather this spring and things I’m hearing from other farmers I’m just happy we have anything fresh right now. In today’s share: yellow collards, butter lettuce, green onions, mixed mustards, spinach, and Hakurei turnips. There are three mustards: Green Wave… Continue reading Spring Share 3 of 7

Taking a look at the crops today here’s what I think will be in the shares on Thursday: spinach, Hakurei turnips, collards, green onions, fava greens, and butter lettuce. The weather today was beautiful, our first really fully sunny warm day on the farm this spring. A lot of our crops are behind where we… Continue reading Predictions for 3rd Spring Share

Basic arugula, sage blossoms, Lacinato Rainbow kale, French Breakfast radishes, blossoming thyme, Nevada green crisp lettuce, Samantha red leaf lettuce. The spring plantings are still catching up after all the cold weather we’ve had so we’re off to a slower start than would be ideal. In the meantime you should still get a few good… Continue reading Spring Share 2 of 7

At this point it looks like the second share will be similar to the first: arugula, radishes, lettuce, green onions, kale. There’s a small chance the first salad turnips will make an appearance, and spinach may be on the farm stand again. The green onions are small so we may wait for them to size… Continue reading Prediction for 2nd Share

A small share to start the season, with lots of fresh greens, a few colorful roots and some lovely flowering chives. The lettuce is a red leaf named Samantha. We harvested some nice, mild basic arugula and with luck we’ll have more of that soon. Fava greens are a spring treat, the actual leaves and… Continue reading Spring Share 1 of 7

Harvests start this Thursday. I’ve made things a little different this year by running our weeks Thursday-Monday instead of Monday-Thursday. I’m hoping this doesn’t cause too much confusion. Thursday CSA members should have already received details for picking up your first share in your email, and details for Monday members will go out later today.… Continue reading CSA Predictions

Our spring harvests are scheduled to start next week and we only have 4 shares still available, which is great! Big thanks to everyone who has signed up already and if you’re still wanting a spring share make sure to sign up soon. It’s been a busy week of planting and pick up area renovations… Continue reading Field Notes 5/13

We’re continuing to get a trickle of sign-ups – thank you! – and we still have more spring CSA shares to sell so keep passing the word! Yesterday was one of the wettest on the farm I can remember for a long time. Proper rain almost the entire day. Despite how often the forecast makes… Continue reading Field Notes 5/6

It’s still cold and wet, but the sun is peeking through a little and the rain has mostly turned from long drenches to little showers. It’s been nice to not have to irrigate, and the soil has been just dry enough to get plantings in and even do some cultivation. Everything is growing very slowly,… Continue reading Field Notes 4/29